VMware vNUMA and SQL Server
Jonathan Kehayias (b | t ) posted a fantastic write up today on VMware’s vNUMA interactions when the operating system feature ‘CPU...
2013-12-31
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Technobabble by Klee from @kleegeek
2014 Event Kickoff
I know that this coming year, 2014, is going to be my best year yet! I’m starting 2014 off with...
2013-12-17
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Recent events wrapup
The last two weeks were just incredible! I gave my first SQL Saturday PreCon training session in Washington DC and...
2013-12-15
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SQL Server Virtual Machine vNUMA Sizing
A wonderful gentleman who attended my SQL PASS Summit session this year recently emailed me and asked me a great...
2013-12-10 (first published: 2013-12-02)
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HammerDB SQL Server Benchmarking Utility
Mike Fal
Everyone here knows how much I enjoy using the DVDstore database benchmarking utility to benchmark a SQL Server instance....
2013-11-26
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Guest blog post at SQLAuthority – How many vCPUs are too many?
Last night my first guest blog pots over at SQLAuthority has gone live! It is the next in the “Notes...
2013-11-27 (first published: 2013-11-21)
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Triangle SQL Server User Group Wrapup
Tonight I had the pleasure of presenting remotely to the Triangle SQL Server Users Group. I presented my session entitled “Squeezing...
2013-11-20
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Chicago SQL Server Users Group Wrapup
Thursday night I had a great time presenting my session entitled “Squeezing Top Performance from Your Virtualized SQL Server” to...
2013-11-17
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VMware vCPU Ready Time Equivalent in Hyper-V
Jonathan Keyahias (b | t | l) from SQLskills has released a new blog post outlining the metric that Microsoft’s Hyper-V product...
2013-11-14
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Testing network throughput with iperf
Have you ever wondered if that black box in your datacenter called the network is performing as well as it...
2013-11-20 (first published: 2013-11-11)
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Blogs
A New Word: Etherness
By Steve Jones
etherness – n. the wistful feeling of looking around a gathering of loved ones,...
Vibe Coding a Login Tracking System
By Steve Jones
A customer was asking about tracking logins and logouts in Redgate Monitor. We don’t...
4 CPE Opportunity (Virtual) for Charity
By Brian Kelley
Every year, the South Carolina State Internal Auditors Association and the South Carolina Midlands...
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UNISTR Basics
What does this code return in SQL Server 2025+? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
SELECT UNISTR('Hello 4E16754C') AS 'A Classic';
A: 
B: 
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